Spector Found Guilty of Second-degree Murder and First Degree Bad Taste

I’ve been following the sad case of music producer Phil Spector who was convicted on April 13 of second-degree murder in the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson at his mansion six years ago. Our agency does public relations work for law firms and I’m going to ask one of our clients, “How do they

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The “Fiction” About Book Publishing

This week I’ll have the privilege of speaking at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. I always consider it an honor when I am asked to share what I’ve learned with students. The course is called, “The Art and Craft of Writing Nonfiction Books.” My topic is “Blogging Your Way to the Bestseller

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? The Death of Public Relations Agencies and Old-Media ?

Everything else is crashing in the business world, why not public relations agencies? After all, most businesses need to pay rent, meet payroll, and cover shipping costs of their products. Who needs some hacks in the backroom banging out a press release in a format that has not changed in almost a hundred years? Don’t

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PETA – Phony Ethics for Embracing Animals

OK, I’ll admit it, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) makes me crazy. They ride their high horse (probably not, because it would hurt the horse) with how they protect animals from badly behaving humans. To set the record straight, I like animals. I used to have two cats and my wife has

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